Susan W. Pope | |
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Member of the MassachusettsHouseofRepresentatives from the 13th Middlesex district | |
In office 1997–2006 | |
Preceded by | Nancy Hasty Evans |
Succeeded by | Tom Conroy |
Personal details | |
Born | Susan Joan Wetzel September 10,1942 Summit,New Jersey,United States |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Walter F. Pope |
Children | 3 (Susan,Bradford,and Spencer) |
Alma mater | Centenary College of Louisiana |
Susan Joan Wetzel Pope (born September 10,1942 in Summit) is an American politician from Wayland,Massachusetts. Pope represented the 13th Middlesex district as a Republican in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 to 2006. [1]
Born in Summit,New Jersey,Pope graduated from Bernards High School in Bernardsville. She then received her Bachelor of Arts from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1963. [2]
Pope later moved to Wayland,Massachusetts,where she was elected as a member of the Town of Wayland School Committee from 1984 to 1994,and then to the Board of Selectmen until 2003.
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